Secrets Of The Wolfbanes

chapter two (chase POV)

~a few years ago~

"I ain't mad at you, I am just mad at the situation...you realized what you did could affect your future," Bill said. I wished I didn't go out during a full moon luckily I was in the woods where nobody saw anything. "I am sorry this happened, but I kinda wanted to know how it felt..." "How it felt, if someone saw you out there they would think you were a monster or a demon and I don't want that to be put on us" I looked down at my arms little scratches here and there from twigs and branches but it felt good to not be stuck in a room during a full moon and just run. "Chase are you listening to me," Bill said. "You know what, I am getting tired of staying in my room...sometimes I just want to run." "And what if someone catches you and you get sent off somewhere or you get lost in the woods and you can't find your way back out? You're still in school, you ain't full-time racing yet. You're not grown and until then there are rules you gotta follow" Bill said. I felt the anger getting worse and worse because I lost an argument.

I started to see red which wasn't a good thing. "Chase turning into a wolf won't help your case," Bill said. I fell to the ground and my thoughts became all foggy. I heard the door slam, and once I came back to my senses I saw a torn-up pillow on the floor and a broken mirror. I think I might have punched a mirror, might be bad luck.

~present day~

I was cleaning up the broken vases and the broken picture frame. "So what does it feel like?" Ryan said. "so does what feel like?" "come on man you know, I've only seen werewolves on tv and in movies. And seeing one in person is like mindblowing, I got so many questions, like how does it feel to change?" "Well for starters, it feels like I have no thoughts or it feels like it's all foggy, and depending on what happens I could have memories or just wake up in shitty situations. It's really depending on the person." I said. Something caught Ryan's eye then he picked up a flash drive from the smashed vase... I knew what was on it but I kinda felt terrified about it. "haulier security footage...wait was this after Bristol that one year?" he said.

"yes, and a couple of incidents before that one," "You ok you seem nervous about this." "yeah...I am fine" ok Chase calm down you don't want yourself worked up over a small thing...
"dude I know you're not ok, I see the look in your eyes," Ryan said. I ran to the safe room and lock the door.
Everything felt like it was spinning, I see a purple hue around everything. "Chase, what's going on? please unlock the door" Ryan yelled. The doorknob keeps shaking. "Don't come in" "Why what's going on?" I fell to the ground "I hid that flash drive for a reason...It shows that I am a monster" "Chase come on, you're not a monster" Everything became all foggy...

"YES, I AM," I yelled...

~A few years ago~

"Are you ok Chase?" Noah said. I woke up from the ground in the wooded area everything seems all fuzzy. I sat up "Yeah, I think so. What happened?" I said confused. "you really don't remember?" "no, I don't" "Kevin was right...you don't have control over it" "Over what exactly?" I stood up from the ground and Noah laughed "What so funny?" "you seriously don't know...It is your wolf" "My wolf?" "Well, this is going to be hard to explain...your wolf is basically like a backup driver, and when you have strong negative emotions you swap with the backup driver. Now if you learned to control it you can stay in the driver's seat. Or something like that" Noah explains

"Thanks now I am more confused... let's skip this wolf thing and tell me what happened earlier," I said.
"you attacked Kevin and apparently again," Noah said. I felt upset that I am letting him win the feud because he knows that I can't control the wolf or whatever is called...and it is my weakness. "the haulier fight at Bristol caused me to destroy the seating area of the haulier...then I went to my RV and he basically pokes the bear or wolf in this case...and I went after him but I remember him putting his arm out in front of him and him calling me weak" I said. "he did the same thing earlier and you were pretty angry at him so it might be instinct to put his arm out." Noah said. I saw Rick out in the distance yelling for me. "We gotta go now..." We started to run and I felt the same feeling as when I was younger causing me to transform. That was short-lived when I saw Jeff in front of me. I looked behind me and I was surrounded. "Chase there's no more running from this." Rick said. "who is your friend Chase?" Bill pointed at Noah.

"Noah get out of here. Go on and get" Rick said. Noah ran off, how did Rick know that the other wolf was Noah?
I saw nothing until I woke up back in the same conference room but the lights were turned off. I was stuck in the chair and my head was hurting. "how are you enjoying your time out Chase?" Bill said. "not enjoying it at all...but I do like the lights turned off helps with the headache" I said sarcastically. "Chase, listen to me you running out here was completely dangerous...you could have been caught." "Then why did nobody tell me about Noah? Rick how did you know it was him" "Noah is not a part of this conversation chase...now I know you don't like that answer but it's to keep y'all safe"

I started to see red like really red. Then I felt the burning pain of the silver. I started to cry a little. "Chase I know this is a big change but you can't be turning into a wolf out in the open or the hauler..." Bill said.

~present day~

My vision was coming back. "Chase, are you ok?" Ryan said. I was on my couch. I looked at Ryan and saw the scratches and bites on his arm. "did I do that to you?" I asked. "I mean you did but I kinda moved you out of the safe room so you could be outside...then you changed back when I reached the living room and you were out like a light," he said. I sat up and looked at my phone...screen protector cracked. Then I saw a text message in the Wolfbane chat, Chase something bad happened with Noah you have a key card that works at JRM... "Chase, did something happen?" "I gotta go, it looks like it's urgent" I got up and ran towards the door. "well can I tag along sense, I know it has to do with werewolves," Ryan said. "how did you know that?" "Y'all really named the group chat Wolfbane... it's kinda obvious" "Fine at long as you stay in the car" "Deal"

We both hop in the car and drove to the JRM shop...I saw Kevin waiting by the door. I got out and walked over there. "Kevin, what happened with Noah?" "I don't know he text the wolf emoji and the fire alarm went off...don't worry there's no fire but he is stuck in his office." "He is afraid of the fire alarm?" "it seems like it" I scanned my card and let Kevin in. We walked around a bit then we found his office. "ok this might sound dumb but we go in there and put on the silver bracelet to at least have him in his human form so we can get him out of here." I said. Kevin nodded and open the door. I looked under the desk and found Noah hiding. "Hey Noah I know you are afraid right now but I need you to trust us, we are going to get you out...do you see this it's made out of silver. It's going to turn you back so we can get you out of here ok?" I said. I put the bracelet down and he put it on his arm. He changed back and quickly ran to the trash can and threw up.

"Are you ok, Noah?" I asked. He looked up from the trash can a nodded. "did the fire alarm scare you?" "No, Kevin the fire alarm didn't scare me...I am not a kid, but earlier today someone caught me off-guard"
"who caught you off-guard?" "I was going on a morning run at that park and I saw Ty Gibbs on the other side of the woods flipping out. I got nosey and watch most of it until I saw the dark wings and red eyes then I dipped out of there. I was just sitting in here when the fire alarm went off and I was already on edge and I guess that triggered it."

Kevin punched the wall "damn it". I started to look confused "This is bad this is really bad." "What is?" "Chase, has no one told you yet?" "About what?" "Demons... I thought you knew since your family came from the werewolf trials era?" I shaped my head no...but learning that Demons also exist kinda scared me. "Well back before the werewolf trials. demons and werewolves didn't like each other, Werewolves were just hunters with no bad in them usually it was just one person that could transform, then the demons started to show up in the villages, they had the power to control werewolves and turn them into hell hounds, some hell hounds lost their human forms while others lost their ability to transform causing them to go crazy. The hell hounds started to attack farmers' animals and they blamed it on werewolves...the werewolves gene became less of a hunting tactic and more of a fight or flight thing so instead of one transforming, the entire family can transform due to being a survivor thing"

Noah gave a look of disbelief "I am sorry but what? So what you are telling us is that Demons are real and if we get caught by one we could be permanently stuck as a wolf or lose our minds?" "Unfortunately...yes, although Ty is young so he might not know about this, I would lay low for a bit," Kevin left the office.